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4:1.1 For [[Aeons|ages]] the [[Citizens|inhabitants]] of [[Urantia]] have misunderstood the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:10._FUNCTIONS_OF_PROVIDENCE providence of God]. There is a [[providence]] of [[divine]] outworking on your world, but it is not the childish, [[arbitrary]], and [[material]] ministry many [[mortals]] have conceived it to be. The providence of God consists in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:9._UNIVERSE_MECHANISMS interlocking activities]] of the [[celestial]] [[beings]] and the [[divine]] [[spirits]] who, in accordance with [[cosmic]] [[law]], unceasingly [[Work|labor]] for the [[honor]] of [[God]] and for the spiritual [[Progress|advancement]] of his universe [[children]].
4:1.2 Can you not advance in your [[concept]] of God's [[Relationship|dealing]] with man to that level where you recognize that the [[Cri de coeur|watchword]] of the [[universe]] is [[progress]]? Through long ages the [[human]] [[race]] has struggled to reach its present position. Throughout all these [[Aeons|millenniums]] [[Providence]] has been working out the plan of progressive [[evolution]]. The two [[thoughts]] are not opposed in [[practice]], only in man's mistaken concepts. Divine providence is never arrayed in opposition to true human progress, either [[temporal]] or [[spiritual]]. Providence is always consistent with the unchanging and [[perfect]] [[nature]] of the supreme Lawmaker.
4:1.3 "God is faithful"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Corinthians#1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Corinthians.2C_I] and "all his commandments are just."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_119] "His faithfulness is established in the very skies."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_36] "Forever, O Lord, your word is settled in heaven. Your faithfulness is to all generations; you have established the earth and it abides."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_119] "He is a faithful Creator."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deutoronomy#Chapter_.7]
4:1.4 There is no [[limitation]] of the [[forces]] and [[personalities]] which [[the Father]] may use to uphold his [[purpose]] and sustain his [[creatures]]. "The eternal God is our [[Sanctuary|refuge]], and underneath are the everlasting arms."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deutoronomy#Chapter_.33] "He who dwells in the secret place of the [[Most High]] shall abide under the shadow of the [[Paper 116 - The Almighty Supreme|Almighty]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_91] "Behold, he who keeps us shall neither slumber nor [[sleep]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_121] "We know that [[Everything|all things]] [[work]] together for [[good]] to those who [[love]] God,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_VIII] "for the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their [[prayers]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_Peter#1st_Letter_of_Peter.2C_III]
4:1.5 God upholds "all [[things]] by the [[word]] of his [[power]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_I] And when [[Paper 57 - The Origin of Urantia|new worlds are born]], he "sends forth his Sons and they are created."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_104] God not only [[creates]], but he "preserves them all."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Nehemiah#Chapter_.9] God constantly upholds all [[things]] [[material]] and all [[beings]] [[spiritual]]. The universes are eternally stable. There is [[stability]] in the midst of apparent [[Turbulence|instability]]. There is an underlying [[Cosmos|order]] and [[security]] in the midst of the [[energy]] upheavals and the [[physical]] [[Catastrophism|cataclysms]] of the [[Multiverse|starry realms]].
4:1.6 The [[Universal Father]] has not withdrawn from the [[Administration|management]] of the [[universes]]; he is not an inactive [[Deity]]. If God should retire as the present upholder of all creation, there would immediately occur a [[universal]] [[Default|collapse]]. Except for God, there would be no such thing as [[reality]]. At this very [[moment]], as during the remote ages of the past and in the eternal future, God continues to uphold. The divine [[Embrace|reach]] extends around the [[circle]] of [[eternity]]. The universe is not [[Mechanism|wound up like a clock]] to run just so long and then cease to [[function]]; [[Everything|all things]] are constantly being renewed. The Father unceasingly pours forth [[energy]], [[light]], and life. The [[work]] of God is [[literal]] as well as [[spiritual]]. "He stretches out the north over the empty [[space]] and hangs the [[earth]] upon nothing."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.26]
4:1.7 A [[Divine Counselor|being of my order]] is able to [[discover]] [[ultimate]] [[harmony]] and to detect far-reaching and [[profound]] co-ordination in the routine affairs of [[Paper 33 - Administration of the Local Universe|universe administration]]. Much that seems disjointed and haphazard to the [[mortal]] [[mind]] appears orderly and constructive to my [[understanding]]. But there is very much going on in the universes that [[Unknown|I do not fully comprehend]]. I have long been a student of, and am more or less conversant with, the recognized [[forces]], [[energies]], [[minds]], [[morontias]], [[spirits]], and [[personalities]] of the [[local universe]]s and the [[superuniverses]]. I have a general understanding of how these agencies and personalities operate, and I am [[intimate]]ly familiar with the workings of the accredited [[Paper 30 - Personalities of the Grand Universe|spirit intelligences of the grand universe]]. Notwithstanding my [[knowledge]] of the [[phenomena]] of [[Paper 15 - The Seven Superuniverses|the universes]], I am constantly confronted with [[cosmic]] [[reactions]] which I cannot fully [[fathom]]. I am continually encountering apparently fortuitous conspiracies of the inter[[association]] of [[forces]], [[energies]], [[intellects]], and [[spirits]], which I cannot satisfactorily explain.
4:1.8 I am entirely competent to trace out and to [[analyze]] the working of all [[phenomena]] directly resulting from the [[function]]ing of the [[Universal Father]], the [[Eternal Son]], the [[Infinite Spirit]], and, to a large extent, the [[Isle of Paradise]]. My perplexity is occasioned by encountering what appears to be the [[performance]] of their mysterious co-ordinates, [[The Three Absolutes]] of [[potentiality]]. These Absolutes seem to supersede [[matter]], to [[transcend]] mind, and to [[supervene]] spirit. I am constantly [[confused]] and often perplexed by my inability to [[comprehend]] these [[complex]] transactions which I attribute to the [[presences]] and performances of the [[The Three Absolutes|Unqualified Absolute, the Deity Absolute, and the Universal Absolute]].
4:1.9 These [[Absolute]]s must be the not-fully-revealed [[presences]] abroad in the universe which, in the [[phenomena]] of [[space]] potency and in the [[function]] of other superultimates, render it impossible for [[physicists]], [[philosophers]], or even [[religionists]] to predict with certainty as to just how the primordials of [[force]], [[concept]], or [[spirit]] will [[respond]] to demands made in a [[Complexity|complex]] reality situation involving supreme adjustments and [[ultimate]] [[values]].
4:1.10 There is also an organic [[unity]] in the [[universes]] of [[time and space]] which seems to underlie the whole [[fabric]] of cosmic events. This living [[presence]] of the evolving [[Supreme Being]], this [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_117_-_God_the_Supreme#117:7._THE_FUTURE_OF_THE_SUPREME Immanence of the Projected Incomplete], is [[Mystery|inexplicably]] [[manifested]] ever and anon by what appears to be an amazingly fortuitous co-ordination of [[Synchronicity|apparently unrelated universe happenings]]. This must be the [[function]] of [[Providence]]—the realm of the [[Supreme Being]] and the [[Conjoint Actor]].
4:1.11 I am inclined to believe that it is this far-flung and generally [[Invisible|unrecognizable]] control of the co-ordination and inter[[association]] of all [[phases]] and forms of universe [[activity]] that causes such a [[Diversity|variegated]] and apparently hopelessly [[confused]] medley of [[physical]], [[mental]], [[moral]], and [[spiritual]] [[phenomena]] so unerringly to work out to the [[glory]] of [[God]] and for the [[good]] of men and [[angels]].
4:1.12 But in the larger sense the apparent "[[accidents]]"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Synchronicity] of the [[cosmos]] are undoubtedly a part of the finite [[drama]] of the [[time-space]] [[adventure]] of the [[Infinite]] in his [[eternal]] [[manipulation]] of [[The Three Absolutes|the Absolutes]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_4 Go to Paper 4]</center>
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[[Category:Paper 4 - God's Relation to the Universe]]
4:1.1 For [[Aeons|ages]] the [[Citizens|inhabitants]] of [[Urantia]] have misunderstood the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:10._FUNCTIONS_OF_PROVIDENCE providence of God]. There is a [[providence]] of [[divine]] outworking on your world, but it is not the childish, [[arbitrary]], and [[material]] ministry many [[mortals]] have conceived it to be. The providence of God consists in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:9._UNIVERSE_MECHANISMS interlocking activities]] of the [[celestial]] [[beings]] and the [[divine]] [[spirits]] who, in accordance with [[cosmic]] [[law]], unceasingly [[Work|labor]] for the [[honor]] of [[God]] and for the spiritual [[Progress|advancement]] of his universe [[children]].
4:1.2 Can you not advance in your [[concept]] of God's [[Relationship|dealing]] with man to that level where you recognize that the [[Cri de coeur|watchword]] of the [[universe]] is [[progress]]? Through long ages the [[human]] [[race]] has struggled to reach its present position. Throughout all these [[Aeons|millenniums]] [[Providence]] has been working out the plan of progressive [[evolution]]. The two [[thoughts]] are not opposed in [[practice]], only in man's mistaken concepts. Divine providence is never arrayed in opposition to true human progress, either [[temporal]] or [[spiritual]]. Providence is always consistent with the unchanging and [[perfect]] [[nature]] of the supreme Lawmaker.
4:1.3 "God is faithful"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Corinthians#1st_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Corinthians.2C_I] and "all his commandments are just."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_119] "His faithfulness is established in the very skies."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_36] "Forever, O Lord, your word is settled in heaven. Your faithfulness is to all generations; you have established the earth and it abides."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_119] "He is a faithful Creator."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deutoronomy#Chapter_.7]
4:1.4 There is no [[limitation]] of the [[forces]] and [[personalities]] which [[the Father]] may use to uphold his [[purpose]] and sustain his [[creatures]]. "The eternal God is our [[Sanctuary|refuge]], and underneath are the everlasting arms."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deutoronomy#Chapter_.33] "He who dwells in the secret place of the [[Most High]] shall abide under the shadow of the [[Paper 116 - The Almighty Supreme|Almighty]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_91] "Behold, he who keeps us shall neither slumber nor [[sleep]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_121] "We know that [[Everything|all things]] [[work]] together for [[good]] to those who [[love]] God,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_VIII] "for the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their [[prayers]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_Peter#1st_Letter_of_Peter.2C_III]
4:1.5 God upholds "all [[things]] by the [[word]] of his [[power]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_I] And when [[Paper 57 - The Origin of Urantia|new worlds are born]], he "sends forth his Sons and they are created."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_104] God not only [[creates]], but he "preserves them all."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Nehemiah#Chapter_.9] God constantly upholds all [[things]] [[material]] and all [[beings]] [[spiritual]]. The universes are eternally stable. There is [[stability]] in the midst of apparent [[Turbulence|instability]]. There is an underlying [[Cosmos|order]] and [[security]] in the midst of the [[energy]] upheavals and the [[physical]] [[Catastrophism|cataclysms]] of the [[Multiverse|starry realms]].
4:1.6 The [[Universal Father]] has not withdrawn from the [[Administration|management]] of the [[universes]]; he is not an inactive [[Deity]]. If God should retire as the present upholder of all creation, there would immediately occur a [[universal]] [[Default|collapse]]. Except for God, there would be no such thing as [[reality]]. At this very [[moment]], as during the remote ages of the past and in the eternal future, God continues to uphold. The divine [[Embrace|reach]] extends around the [[circle]] of [[eternity]]. The universe is not [[Mechanism|wound up like a clock]] to run just so long and then cease to [[function]]; [[Everything|all things]] are constantly being renewed. The Father unceasingly pours forth [[energy]], [[light]], and life. The [[work]] of God is [[literal]] as well as [[spiritual]]. "He stretches out the north over the empty [[space]] and hangs the [[earth]] upon nothing."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.26]
4:1.7 A [[Divine Counselor|being of my order]] is able to [[discover]] [[ultimate]] [[harmony]] and to detect far-reaching and [[profound]] co-ordination in the routine affairs of [[Paper 33 - Administration of the Local Universe|universe administration]]. Much that seems disjointed and haphazard to the [[mortal]] [[mind]] appears orderly and constructive to my [[understanding]]. But there is very much going on in the universes that [[Unknown|I do not fully comprehend]]. I have long been a student of, and am more or less conversant with, the recognized [[forces]], [[energies]], [[minds]], [[morontias]], [[spirits]], and [[personalities]] of the [[local universe]]s and the [[superuniverses]]. I have a general understanding of how these agencies and personalities operate, and I am [[intimate]]ly familiar with the workings of the accredited [[Paper 30 - Personalities of the Grand Universe|spirit intelligences of the grand universe]]. Notwithstanding my [[knowledge]] of the [[phenomena]] of [[Paper 15 - The Seven Superuniverses|the universes]], I am constantly confronted with [[cosmic]] [[reactions]] which I cannot fully [[fathom]]. I am continually encountering apparently fortuitous conspiracies of the inter[[association]] of [[forces]], [[energies]], [[intellects]], and [[spirits]], which I cannot satisfactorily explain.
4:1.8 I am entirely competent to trace out and to [[analyze]] the working of all [[phenomena]] directly resulting from the [[function]]ing of the [[Universal Father]], the [[Eternal Son]], the [[Infinite Spirit]], and, to a large extent, the [[Isle of Paradise]]. My perplexity is occasioned by encountering what appears to be the [[performance]] of their mysterious co-ordinates, [[The Three Absolutes]] of [[potentiality]]. These Absolutes seem to supersede [[matter]], to [[transcend]] mind, and to [[supervene]] spirit. I am constantly [[confused]] and often perplexed by my inability to [[comprehend]] these [[complex]] transactions which I attribute to the [[presences]] and performances of the [[The Three Absolutes|Unqualified Absolute, the Deity Absolute, and the Universal Absolute]].
4:1.9 These [[Absolute]]s must be the not-fully-revealed [[presences]] abroad in the universe which, in the [[phenomena]] of [[space]] potency and in the [[function]] of other superultimates, render it impossible for [[physicists]], [[philosophers]], or even [[religionists]] to predict with certainty as to just how the primordials of [[force]], [[concept]], or [[spirit]] will [[respond]] to demands made in a [[Complexity|complex]] reality situation involving supreme adjustments and [[ultimate]] [[values]].
4:1.10 There is also an organic [[unity]] in the [[universes]] of [[time and space]] which seems to underlie the whole [[fabric]] of cosmic events. This living [[presence]] of the evolving [[Supreme Being]], this [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_117_-_God_the_Supreme#117:7._THE_FUTURE_OF_THE_SUPREME Immanence of the Projected Incomplete], is [[Mystery|inexplicably]] [[manifested]] ever and anon by what appears to be an amazingly fortuitous co-ordination of [[Synchronicity|apparently unrelated universe happenings]]. This must be the [[function]] of [[Providence]]—the realm of the [[Supreme Being]] and the [[Conjoint Actor]].
4:1.11 I am inclined to believe that it is this far-flung and generally [[Invisible|unrecognizable]] control of the co-ordination and inter[[association]] of all [[phases]] and forms of universe [[activity]] that causes such a [[Diversity|variegated]] and apparently hopelessly [[confused]] medley of [[physical]], [[mental]], [[moral]], and [[spiritual]] [[phenomena]] so unerringly to work out to the [[glory]] of [[God]] and for the [[good]] of men and [[angels]].
4:1.12 But in the larger sense the apparent "[[accidents]]"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Synchronicity] of the [[cosmos]] are undoubtedly a part of the finite [[drama]] of the [[time-space]] [[adventure]] of the [[Infinite]] in his [[eternal]] [[manipulation]] of [[The Three Absolutes|the Absolutes]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_4 Go to Paper 4]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 4 - God's Relation to the Universe]]